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"Interzone is really spoiling me when it publishes Jason Sanford so regularly. As far as I'm concerned, they couldn't publish too much of this author if they named it Jason Sanford's Science Fiction Magazine." — Sam Tomaino at SFRevu

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"Heaven's Touch" Novelette forthcoming in Asimov's Science Fiction.  "The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues" Novelette in issue 236 (Sept./Oct. 2011) of Interzone. Reprint forthcoming in the Czech SF magazine XB-1. "Her Scientifiction, Far Future, Medieval Fantasy" Novelette in issue 234 (May/June 2011) of Interzone. "The Blue Room" Short story in Daily Science Fiction, April 1, 2011. "The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola" Cover story in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show issue 20. "Memoria" Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone. Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1. "Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep" Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone. Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. "Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime" Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone. Reprinted in the Russian magazine ESLI (IF). "Plague Birds" (PDF download) Originally published in issue 228 (May/June 2010) of Interzone. Co-winner of the 2010 Interzone Readers' Poll. Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1. Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. "A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story" Originally published in Tales of the Unanticipated, issue 30, spring 2010. "Cwazy" Originally published in OCHO #28, the print companion to the literary and arts magazine MiPOesias. This special issue was edited by Kirk Curnutt. Fall 2009. "Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas" Originally published in Interzone, issue 226 (Jan./Feb. 2010). Placed third in the 2010 Interzone Readers' Poll. An earlier version of the story was published in issue 2 of Tales of Moreauvia Reprinted in StarShipSofa Stories, Volume 2. Reprint forthcoming in the Czech SF magazine XB-1. "Here We Are, Falling Through Shadows" Originally published in issue 225 (Nov./Dec. 2009) of Interzone. Reprinted in Apex Magazine, Czech SF magazine Ikarie and the French book anthology Ténèbres. "Sublimation Angels" Self-contained novella originally published in issue 224 (Sept./Oct. 2009) of Interzone. Finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella. Winner of the 2009 Interzone Readers' Poll. Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie and the Chinese magazine Science Fiction World. Podcast on StarShipSofa: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 "When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees" Originally published in Interzone, issue 219, Dec. 2008. Winner of the 2008 Interzone Readers Poll. Podcast on StarShipSofa, May 2009. Reprinted in Apex Magazine, the Czech SF magazine Ikarie and the Russian magazine ESLI (IF). "The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain" Originally published in Interzone, issue 217, Aug. 2008.  Reprinted in Year's Best SF 14, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie and Russian magazine ESLI (IF). "Where Away You Fall" Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Dec. 2008. "Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim"  Originally published in Menda City Review, Dec. 2007 Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine "Freelanga" Originally published in the anthology I Am This Meat, 2007 Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. "Rumspringa" Originally published in  Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 5, July 2007. "For Aging Kids Who Dream of Star Treks" Originally published in  Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2002 Podcasts Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine Freelanga on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine Maps of the Bible on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine Plague Birds on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain on StarShipSofa Novella Sublimation Angels on StarShipSofa Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 When Thorns Are the Tips of Trees on StarShipSofa   Jeremiah (a short novel in four parts): Prologue: "Maps of the Bible" Monsters and Critics, spring 2008 Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. Part 1: "Cold Pelts" Beloit Fiction Journal, spring 2000; reprinted in Monsters and Critics summer 2007 Part 2: "One Side, Two Weeks, One Bathroom" Monsters and Critics summer 2007 Part 3: "Water Hearts" Monsters and Critics summer 2007 Other fiction "Whack a Cracker Upside the Head" Fiction Warehouse (winner of the 2005 Fiction Warehouse Hypnologic Experiment writing contest) "Enucleation Means to Remove an Eye" Southern Gothic Online (nominated for the Pushcart Prize) "One More Expert Speaks to Jury" Diagram 4.6 "Blue Doily Dreams" Fiction Warehouse (feature story of the week for Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, 2004) "God's Words to Bucky Guisman, Airport Angel" Pindeldyboz, summer 2002; reprinted in 3 A.M. Magazine January 2003 "Links" The Mississippi Review, winter 2000 "Rumpelstiltskin, Private Eye" Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #2  "Rumpelstiltskin, Private Eye" Classroom Theater "Mai's Magic" Girls to the Rescue, Book #4

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